Chapter 273 The Whereabouts of the Second Key

In the darkness, Ivan saw the lighted windows of Hagrid's cabin.

They didn't get close, but walked in another direction. In the breeze, they walked slowly along a narrow path that gradually disappeared into the depths of the black jungle.

Except for Ron, Ivan, Harry, and Hermione all had the experience of entering the Forbidden Forest late at night.

But those experiences were very bad.

Harry and Hermione were sent to solitary confinement in their first year.

They entered the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid and Malfoy in the middle of the night to look for the unicorn hurt by Voldemort. Harry even saw Voldemort himself at that time.

Aiwen chased Peter Pettigrew into the Forbidden Forest a month ago.

In addition to dealing with Peter, he also had a battle with the terrifying acromantulas. In the end, he burned down the lair of the acromantula leader Aragog and hundreds of acromanders. These monsters must hate him to death by now.

The acromantula has a high degree of intelligence and is very vengeful. If they know that Aiwen has entered the Forbidden Forest again, they will definitely swarm up and fight him desperately.

Fortunately, they didn't go to the territory of the giant spider.

Under the leadership of Sirius, the few of them continued to go deeper along the narrow path.

It was dark and silent in the Forbidden Forest. Under the faint light of the magic wand, everyone walked forward silently, close together, the atmosphere became more and more oppressive, and the voices became lower and lower, no one knew what was waiting for them.

Every time you move forward, you will encounter a fork in the road.

It can be seen that Sirius is very familiar with the surrounding area, and he chose the right path without much hesitation.

Soon, Aiwen saw a rushing and meandering stream at the end of the road, and they walked upstream for more than an hour, getting farther and farther away from the castle.

The five of them have entered the core area of ​​the Forbidden Forest. On both sides of the stream are tall trees that have never changed since ancient times. The ground is covered with thick moss and unknown plants. It seems that no one has stepped on it for centuries, and they can be seen from time to time. A magical creature that comes to drink.

Behind a dark green rock, Ivan found a rare deformed lizard.

It was about ten inches long, with silver-green markings on its body, and it was huddled in a corner, motionless, as if it were the rock itself.

As soon as Aiwen approached, it quickly got out and fled into the distance.

If it wasn't because there were important things waiting for him, Ivan would have wanted to catch this guy. You must know that the scale skin of the deformed lizard is a very precious magic material, which can be used to make wallets or storage bags. The bag made of this scaly material will automatically shrink when strangers approach, and it is difficult to hide it on the body. Others found out.

It is definitely one of the must-have equipment for wizards when used together with the Untraceable Stretching Curse.

Ai Wen secretly said that it was a pity, and they walked forward for a while, and took a short rest near a river beach full of round stones.

"We'll be there soon, and this is the territory of the centaurs." Sirius carefully checked the surroundings, "I was hiding in the Forbidden Forest last summer when I was avoiding the pursuit of the dementors and the Ministry of Magic. Food. But I seldom go around here, the horses don't like humans near them."

"I read in the book that centaurs are very disgusted with wizards!" Hermione looked around anxiously and said worriedly, "What if they attack us?"

"I don't think this kind of thing will happen. Although the centaurs are not very friendly to humans, they generally don't take the initiative to attack." Sirius explained, "They just don't interact with us, but if they want to talk, they still Willing to do so, to tell you about the fates and warnings they see from the sky."

"Iwen and I have recorded all the trajectories of the constellations this semester, hoping to use them." Hermione said worriedly, "In addition, I also conducted research on their lifestyles and customs."

"The horse people are very smart. When you come into contact with them, just remember to regard them as creatures of equal status to you, and that's enough!"

"Don't worry, Hermione, they're not as scary as they are written in the book!" Harry continued, breathing a little heavier than usual, "Both Ivan and I have seen a centaur named Firenze, he Willing to help humans."

"I have to say, that guy is an anomaly among the centaur tribe." Sirius smiled, "But he is trustworthy. I have known him for a long time. When I was a student, I and James, Leo James and Peter often ventured into the Forbidden Forest, and we met when he was a foal."

"I heard from Firenze that he seems to miss the wizard-made items, food, and all kinds of interesting stories you brought him."

"He is very interested in the human world. Things that are common in our eyes are very novel to him." Sirius recalled, "But he is the only one like this. Contact with humans. Compared with them, the mermaids living in the lake in front of the city gate are much more enlightened, they took the initiative to communicate with us, and exchanged things in the lake for things made by wizards."

"Mermaid?!"

"That's right, James met them once when he fell into the lake. It was an unforgettable experience. I remember that they exchanged a lot of things with the four of us, including many advanced magic materials. They seemed to be What else do you want to tell us..." Sirius frowned, and continued, "I don't understand the language of the mermaids, Remus has learned a little bit, he said that the mermaids let us enter the water, as if there was something Down below. Unfortunately, we didn’t end up doing that.”

Hearing what Sirius said, Ivan also fell silent.

This is really strange, why did the mermaids want Sirius and the others to go under the water, what is there in the end? !

Since he knew that the key to the secret treasure of Gryffindor was in the centaur tribe, he rethought the hint left by the Big Four.

Following the same line of reasoning, it is not difficult to imagine that the mermaid may also hold a treasure key.

It's just that I don't know who stayed, and it's not clear whether it was split like Gryffindor's.

Aiwen sighed. It seems that after getting the key fragment from the centaur tribe, he still needs to learn the mermaid language and try to communicate with them.

"There are mermaids living in the lake in front of the castle?!" Harry said in surprise. "I never knew that. I thought there were only giant squids in there."

"Hogwarts has many secrets waiting for people to explore. The four of us discovered many, but certainly not all of them!" Sirius looked at Harry and said gratifiedly, "The rest of the secrets are up to you." Let’s go digging.” (To be continued.)